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- 🇦🇺AU · Film History#9730K to 100K
- 🇬🇧GB · Film History#1315K to 30K
- 🇮🇳IN · Film History#4730K to 100K
- 🇲🇽MX · Film History#8710K to 30K
- 🇯🇵JP · Film History#1031K to 10K
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Episode 439- Show Updates From Doug Hess
Jun 25, 2026
10m 29s
Episode 438- 1st Film with Gay Characters
Jun 22, 2026
10m 30s
Mini Spotlight- Sydney Pollack on WIll & Grace
Jun 20, 2026
5m 39s
Episode 437-"Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews".
Jun 18, 2026
21m 42s
Episode 436-Warren Croom, Cindy Mitchum & Joe Cornett: The Mitchum Family Legacy
Jun 15, 2026
30m 05s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/25/26 | ![]() Episode 439- Show Updates From Doug Hess | Follow Forgotten Hollywood on Facebook.Buy the books on Amazon.Doug Hess is the creator and producer, he shares some news with you all! | 10m 29s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | ![]() Episode 438- 1st Film with Gay Characters | For Pride Month June 2026, James Lott JR guest stars. The film most often considered the first major film to feature an explicitly gay character/storyline is Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern), a 1919 German silent film. It starred Conrad Veidt as a gay violinist whose relationship with a male student leads to blackmail and tragedy. It was also made with sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and is often called the first gay-rights film in history. For American/Hollywood film, it gets more complicated because gay characters were often coded for decades because of censorship. A major milestone is The Boys in the Band from 1970, one of the first mainstream American films to openly focus on gay male characters and gay life. | 10m 30s | ||||||
| 6/20/26 | ![]() Mini Spotlight- Sydney Pollack on WIll & Grace | This is the debut of a mini episode called FH Mini Spotlight. For this one we are spotlighting Sydney Pollack (listen to Episode 439) and his time as an actor on the hit TV show Will and Grace for Gay Pride Month. | 5m 39s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() Episode 437-"Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews". | In this episode, I spoke with Patrick McGilligan who was one of the editors of the book "Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews". Sydney Pollack was a true actor's director―a filmmaker who came up through the ranks, starting as a bit-part TV performer before turning to directing. From his debut feature The Slender Thread (1965) to his final film, The Interpreter (2005), Pollack built a reputation for intelligent, emotionally resonant storytelling. | 21m 42s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() Episode 436-Warren Croom, Cindy Mitchum & Joe Cornett: The Mitchum Family Legacy | In this episode, Warren Croom joins me for a conversation with Cindy Mitchum, daughter of John Mitchum and niece of Robert Mitchum. We also speak with Joe Cornett, who is developing a limited series about the two Mitchum brothers. | 30m 05s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Episode 435- "Jane Fonda: There's a Great Deal to Say" with author Marilyn S. Greenwald✨ | Jane Fondaactivism+3 | Marilyn S. Greenwald | JLJ Media | — | Jane FondaMarilyn S. Greenwald+3 | — | 21m 37s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() Episode 434- The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai✨ | The Golden Girlstelevision studies+3 | Taylor Cole MillerAlfred L. Martin Jr. | The Golden Girls: Tales from the LanaiThe Golden Girls | — | Golden GirlsTales from the Lanai+5 | — | 26m 52s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Episode 433- "Jackie Gleason: Library of the Paranormal" with Andrew Lampert✨ | Jackie Gleasonparanormal+3 | Andrew Lampert | Jackie Gleason: Library of the Paranormal | — | Jackie Gleasonparanormal+4 | — | 25m 53s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() Episode 432-Roddy McDowell : An Actor's Life with Author Samuel Garza Bernstein✨ | Roddy McDowallHollywood history+3 | Samuel Garza Bernstein | How Green Was My ValleyCitizen Kane | — | Roddy McDowallSamuel Garza Bernstein+5 | — | 25m 27s | |
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Episode 431-Top Ten TV Episodes on Memorial Day (Crossover with Have You Heard of Me)✨ | Memorial DayPTSD+3 | James Lott Jr | Have You Heard of Me | — | Memorial DayPTSD+3 | — | 8m 25s | |
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| 5/21/26 | ![]() Episode 430-"Karmic Winds: Reflections from the "Smartest Guy in Hollywood"w/Peter Hoffman✨ | Hollywoodmemoir+4 | Peter Hoffman | Carolco PicturesKarmic Winds: Reflections from the "Smartest Guy in Hollywood" | — | Peter HoffmanKarmic Winds+3 | — | 21m 08s | |
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Episode 429- Hollywood vs Nazis: How The Movie Studios Took On Nazis Infiltrating Los Angeles"✨ | Hollywood historyNazi propaganda+4 | Michael Benson | NaziHollywood vs Nazis: How The Movie Studios Took On Nazis Infiltrating Los Angeles | Los AngelesHollywood | HollywoodNazis+6 | — | 21m 36s | |
| 5/14/26 | ![]() Episode 428-A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy with author Tony Lee Moral✨ | Alfred Hitchcockfilm history+3 | Tony Lee Moral | A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the LegacyThe Lodger+4 | — | Hitchcockfilm director+5 | — | 19m 38s | |
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Episode 427- A Chat with Kathy Garver (Cissy, Family Affair)✨ | actresstelevision+4 | Kathy Garver | Family Affair | Terre Haute, Indiana | Kathy GarverFamily Affair+5 | — | 20m 15s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Episode 426- The First Soap Opera Ever: Painted Dreams✨ | soap operaradio history+4 | James Lott Jr | Painted DreamsTodays Children | — | soap operaradio+5 | — | 9m 06s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Episode 425-Superman Wars with William Bernhart✨ | Supermancomic book history+3 | William Bernhart | The Superman Wars: A Battle For Truth, Justice, and An American Icon | — | SupermanWilliam Bernhart+5 | — | 26m 37s | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() Episode 424- Bugsy✨ | mobstersfilm analysis+3 | Larry Gragg | Bugsy | — | Bugsymobster expert+4 | — | 24m 03s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Episode 423-With Author Mayukh Sen- "Love Queenie: Merlie Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" | In this episode, I spoke with author Mayukh Sen about his book "Love Queenie: Merlie Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star". A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood. | 23m 11s | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Episode 422- "Vietnam on the Big Screen: How the Vietnam War Changed Hollywood" | In this episode, I spoke with author Joseph Hulihan about his book "Vietnam on the Big Screen: How the Vietnam War Changed Hollywood". America, it is said, deals with its trauma through the medium of Hollywood, and few experiences have been more traumatic than its involvement in the Vietnam War. As the last US helicopters fled the American Embassy compound during the fall of Saigon, they left behind a country devastated by twenty years of death and destruction. | 22m 02s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 | ![]() Episode 421- Hollywood Haunts with author Robert Guffey | In this episode, I spoke with author Robert Guffey about his Book "Hollywood Haunts the World". In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, Robert Guffey deconstructs the most powerful taboos of the twentieth century (and the initial decades of the twenty-first century) by analyzing how disturbing and transgressive ideas involving Theosophy, Gnosticism, Freemasonry, Darwinian Evolution, Surrealism, Freudian and Jungian psychology, race relations, paranoia, UFOs, xenophobia, political conspiracies, the JFK assassination, virtual reality, and alternate dimensions have been reflected in films―both American and foreign―throughout the past one hundred years. | 25m 14s | ||||||
| 4/13/26 | ![]() Episode 420- "Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places and Events." | In this episode, I spoke with author Carl Rollyson about his book "Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places and Events." From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century | 20m 09s | ||||||
| 4/9/26 | ![]() Episode 419-Gilmore Girls: Pop Culture Reference Guide with author Matt Browning | In this episode, I spoke with author Matt Browning about his latest book "Gilmore Girls: Pop Culture Reference Guide". Finally understand every single pop culture joke, obscure reference, and witty one-liner that makes Gilmore Girls one of the most reference-packed shows in television history. | 23m 00s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 | ![]() Episode 418 Stage Door with Author Kathleen Brady | IN this episode I spoke with author Kathleen Brady to discuss one of her favorite Lucille Ball films Stage Door. A boardinghouse for female theater actresses gets a new arrival in the form of Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn), an upper-class woman pursuing her dreams against her wealthy father's wishes. At first, her status makes her unpopular with the other boarders, particularly her roommate, Jean (Ginger Rogers). As Terry becomes better acquainted with the other girls and their shared ambitions, rivalry -- both professional and romantic -- explodes among them | 21m 40s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Episode 417- Ben Hur | In this episode Robert Ray comes on to discuss Ben-Hur (1959) in 4K for the Easter season. | 21m 37s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 | ![]() Episode 416- Born To Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon | In this episode I spoke with author Rachel Walther about her book "Born To Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon". This is the plot of Dog Day Afternoon, the 1975 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, and Chris Sarandon. It remains a high-water mark of New Hollywood, where the best acting talent of the day came together on a film that was truly exceptional. | 22m 21s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
8 placements across 8 markets.
Chart Positions
8 placements across 8 markets.
